Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Earlier this month, EA held a Final Hours event for Battlefield 3. I had an opportunity to interview executive producer Patrick Bach. I asked him a few questions from a Twitter follower Juan Letona (@ibitjuan). Here are his answers to them and some questions of my own.

These are from Letona:Why are military shooters so popular?
I think it’s human nature to hunt prey, to aim and hit stuff. There’s a natural feedback loop of chasing and hitting something. You see people playing paintball. It’s a natural part of how the human brain works and translating that to a first person shooter is a good way of getting that. You can do Battlefield as a sci-fi game or a paintball game. It doesn’t have to be a military shooter to be fun. People read military books and they read conflicts today and conflicts tomorrow. The modern day war is interesting.

Where does your creative drive come from?Great media — whatever it is — is always inspiring. Books and movies. Architecture. People being creative. It’s always interested me. I get satisfied when you do different things, when you use all different senses.More Q and A from Patrick Bach on the jump